The fusion of sound and stage action in the very first moment makes it immediately clear that this production is operatic in the best sense. With the houselights still up and before a note of music is ...

Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” now one of my favorite operas, had to grow on me. The first time I heard the full score I didn’t like it much. I knew the Sea Interludes, the orchestral music played between ...

With English National Opera and more recently presenting his Bergen Philharmonic as one of the finest orchestras in the world - last night's concert performance proved the point - the agile Gardner ...

Britten's opera tells of fisherman Peter Grimes, who becomes an outcast after his apprentice dies; as he takes on another apprentice, suspicion from the villagers and his own guilt lead to tragedy.